Victor Davis Hanson: The Democrat Party is 'Gone Forever'

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

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The traditional Democrat Party of the last century has been systematically replaced by a radical Jacobin movement that seeks the fundamental transformation of Western civilization. This new faction mirrors the French Revolution’s extremists by toppling statues, weaponizing race through DEI, and showing open disdain for national borders. From billionaire socialists to the rejection of law and order, the modern Left has abandoned the working class in favor of a revolutionary agenda that endangers the very foundations of the American Republic, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” 👉 The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: http://dailysignal.com/donate 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.8	Thank you. Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for the Daily Signal.
0:32.1	We talk about the Democratic Party as if it's the Democratic Party of, say, the last century. We know what that Democratic
0:39.3	Party was. It believed in an equality of result. It was not socialist or Marxist for the most part.
0:46.4	It just believed in big government and good and generous entitlements, supportive unions.
0:59.1	It had thrown off its racist pedigree for a century,
1:04.8	and by the 1960s it was the forefront of civil rights for the most part by isolating the democratic segregationist in the South. So there was a positive role to play for the Democratic Party,
1:12.8	but there is no more Democratic Party. There's the name Democrat Party or Democratic. People on the right tend to prefer the
1:19.2	word Democrat Party, people on the left Democratic, because they feel it is truly a democratic
1:26.2	operation.
1:29.9	But it's really a Jacobin party.
1:36.2	Jacobin refers to a group of radicals that hijacked the French Revolution of 1789.
1:41.7	And they met in a Dominican monastery that was called the Jacobin. And they took that name.
1:44.1	And they thought that a constitutional
1:46.2	monarchy with a parliament, as was transpiring in Britain earlier, was a sellout to the
1:53.2	revolution.
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